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Yes. The original fascists were Italian and had hard-left policies, like very heavy state involvement in industry and communist-style dictatorship.

This rebranding of "fascists" and "Nazis" as right wing has been going on a long time, but when you look at what these groups of people actually did when in power their actions were all but indistinguishable from the USSR: The hardest of hard left power structures. They were both "alt left".